Electronic Arts Software Engineer interview experience

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Shanghai, ShanghaiPosted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with the resume/portfolio review through hiring manager or ATS screening, and then I had a recruiter phone screen.

That recruiter conversation was fairly standard and casual—meant to confirm my experience, cover logistics, discuss salary expectations, and make sure I was genuinely interested.

After that, I ended up with two more rounds that felt more substantive. The first real technical round lasted under an hour, around forty-plus minutes. I didn’t do live coding; instead, the questions were detailed and went deep into C++ topics. I was asked to reason through polymorphism and how the compiler resolves function overloading, including what overloaded functions with the same name but different parameter

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